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The Return
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  • Published: 30 June 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241966297
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288
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The Return

Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between

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2 Mar 2017
EBook
30 June 2016
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30 June 2016
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An extraordinary memoir of a son's search for his father and the return to a homeland after decades of exile

Hisham Matar was nineteen when his father was kidnapped and taken to prison in Libya. He would never see him again. Twenty-two years later, after the fall of Gaddafi, Hisham was finally able to return to his homeland for the first time. In this heart-breaking, illuminating memoir he describes his return to a country and a family he thought he would never see again.

The Return is at once a universal and an intensely personal tale of loss. It is an exquisite meditation on history, politics and art. It's the story of what it is to be human.
  • Published: 30 June 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241966297
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288
Categories:

About the author

Hisham Matar

Hisham Matar was born in New York to Libyan parents, spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his life in London. His memoir The Return received a Pulitzer Prize in 2017. He is also the author of In the Country of Men, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Anatomy of a Disappearance and A Month in Siena. His most recent novel, My Friends, won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2024, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and nominated for the National Book Award. His work has been translated into over thirty languages.
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A Month in Siena
My Friends
Anatomy of a Disappearance
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